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 io«- s. iv. NOV. 4,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 373 of arno=wine. In Quipuscoa there is a moun- tain called izarraitz, whence, as we are told by Agustin Cardaberaz, the marble used in the church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, adjoin- ing his birth-house, was carried. The name means marble-rock, peita de marwiol. Mr. Sproole, of Exeter College, Oxford, once told me that the reason why the Romans called the sea marmor was because the surface of the sea often presents a streaki- ness resembling the markings of marble. E. S. DODGSON. BROUGHAM CASTLE (10th S. iv. 229,293,329). —Your correspondent T. says that in replies at the second reference there is some con- fusion as to the identity of Brougham Castle and Brougham Hall. Will he kindly indicate whore, and by whom, Brougham Castle and Brougham Hall, which he erroneously states " have nothing to do with each other," have been "mixed up1"! It is implied that the connexion of the Broughams with Brougham dates from the year (1726) in which the Hall was bought by the first Lord Brougham's grandfather. But Brougham is only another form of Burgham, and of Broracum or Branovacum, a Roman station which Qough has located here. The estate of Burghara or Brougham belonged to the Brougham family before the Conquest. This is proved from the fact that the earliest possessors had Brougham at the time of the Conquest, and continued to hold it afterwards by the tenure of drengage (Burke's ' Peerage')- Gilbert de Broham, about the fourth year of King John, granted to Robert de Vipont one-half of the town of Brougham, together with the ad- vowson of the rectory—but no part of the manor—although the castle, then a single tower, which was afterwards enlarged t>y Roger Clifford, Vipont's successor, stands within the manor of Brougham (ibid.). Hutchinson. in his 'Excursion to the Lakes,' informs us that on the outer gate of Brougham Castle there were discernible in his time ''the arms of the Vallibus, or Vaux family, being chequy and gules." Vaux is, of course, the second name in the title of the present Lord Brougham and Vaux. J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL. In reference to the '' mixing up" of Brougham Castle and Brougham Hall men- tioned by your correspondent T., I subjoin a cutting I happened to find in an old scrap- book (I do not know name or date, but evi- dently between 1821 and 1830) which appears to confirm the story. At any rate, it is interesting from a genealogical point of view:— " We have no wish to rake up old stories, nor unnecessarily wound personal feelings, but when folly and presumption soar too high, and men and women forget themselves, it is quite necessary to give them a gentle set down—there are several indi- viduals capering and vapouring about London just now, who want a little of our wholesome discipline, and we think no season can be better adapted for stripping pretenders than thin, when the town ia empty, and the weather sufficiently warm to pre- vent any risk of their taking cold. "The first person who comes under our eye is Mr. Henry Brougham (whose birth-place has re- . cently been fixed in a garret in Edinburgh), whose friends and admirers flatter their idol by sanction- ing his pretensions to be called Henry Brougham, of Brougham Hall, in the county of Westmoreland, Esq., as if it were an ancient domain to which Mr. Brougham had succeeded from a long line of ancestors. "Mr. Brougham, the grandfather of the late Queen's Attorney-General, was a most amiable man, and was the owner of a small farm-house (called, we believe, the Bird's-nest), now nicknamed Brougham-hall—he was a solicitor and eort of agent to the Duke of Portland, who greatly esteemed him. " Through his Grace's interest Mr. Brougham had an attic apartment granted him in Windsor Castle, at which time he had also a house in Castle-yard, Holborn. "The eldest son of Mr. Brougham, the same nobleman appointed to the sinecure place of Ser- jeant at Arms to the Lord High Treasurer—a post, netting somewhat under 1001. per annum. "About fifty years since, this Mr. Brougham (the father of the present Barrister) was engaged with a Mr. Callmell, of Albemarle-street, in a gaming concern with Mr. Howard, who afterwards became the mirror of Whiggery, and Protestant Duke of Norfolk. A large sum of money was lost by Mr. Howard to Messrs. Brougham and Callmell, and— why, we really know not—Mr. Brougham imme- diately left London and retired to Edinburgh, where he married, and subsequently resided. " Mr. Brougham his son (the Barrister) had two- uncles—of one of whom we know nothing—the other was beneficed by the Duke of Portland, and is a most worthy and respectable clergyman in, Ireland. " Mr. Brougham. Sen. had likewise three daughters, one married we believe to the late Mr, Meux, another to Mr. Lowndes, a solicitor, and the- other to the late Mr. Aylmer, also a lawyer. "Of the marriage, 4c. of the present Mr. Brougham it is not our intention to speak, nor do we mean in the slightest degree to impugn the respectability of his family—we merely mean that when Mr. Brougham is talked of as proprietor of Brougham Hall, a fine property in the north of England, it is necessary that the world should know how much of the boasting is founded ia truth." A. H. ARKLE. CROWN STREET, SOHO (10th S. iv. 326).—I must confess to some degree of scepticism with regard to "EldeLane"or"Elde Strate," as it is commonly .written, being the ancient appellation of Hog Lane, or Crown Street, which was partly in Soho and partly in St. Giles's. It is said to be so called ia